Cathie from Canada

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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Feud

I've been trying to decide on my response to the news that Saddam Hussein is dead -- he loomed so large in the US reasons for their invasion, yet in the end he was such a ridiculous figure.So what does his death mean? Should we be glad? indifferent? hopeful? fearful? Will it lead to more violence or less?Here is one response which will likely turn out to be accurate, from Juan Cole in Salon:

Saddam's hanging is just one more occasion for a blood feud in a country that now has thousands of them.